Masahiko Kondo/Tetsuro Oda -- Baby Rose

Good heavens! It's been a while, Matchy...welcome back.

Some pretty bombastic good ol' rock-n-roll by Masahiko Kondo（近藤真彦）through his 22nd single "Baby Rose" released in September 1986. I think having Matchy show up on the cover in a black leather jacket with a pompadour hairstyle would have been more appropriate. Still, the song written and composed by Tetsuro Oda（織田哲郎）has a really boss sound as the singer exhorts and begs his Baby Rose to come back to him after a fight.

According to the J-Wiki article for "Baby Rose", Oda himself had recorded the song in his own 1985 album "Night Waves", after which Kondo requested that he would love to perform this particular song in concert. The songwriter had no problems with that, and "Baby Rose" became an official Matchy single.

"Baby Rose" rose to No. 6 on Oricon and later became the 51st-ranked single for 1986. It first got onto an album, "Kondo Masahiko THE BEST" which was released in June 1987.

And here is Oda's original.